Romantic Abstract Paintings
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Early 2000s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Wax, Oil
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings
Charcoal, Oil
1990s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Found Objects
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite, Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings
Glass, Found Objects, Plastic, Acrylic, Wood, Paper, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Magazine Paper, Found Objects
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Gesso, Textile, Oil Crayon, Found Objects, Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Oil Crayon, Found Objects
Early 2000s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Gesso, Linen, Acrylic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Wax, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings
Copper
Early 20th Century Romantic Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil